Rapids Quotes

269 quotes by 245 authors

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is… — James Russell Lowell
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very… — Shunryu Suzuki
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and… — Neil Postman
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting… — John Desmond Bernal
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than… — Arthur Levitt Jr
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. — Ernest Lawrence
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth,… — Frederick Lenz
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs… — Danielle Trussoni
Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your… — Frederick Lenz
If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have… — Frederick Lenz
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we… — Matt Mullenweg
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human… — Vaclav Havel
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so… — Harold Wilson

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